Mailman 3 March 2005 - Python-announce-list

ANNOUNCE: PyDO-2.0a0 released
by Jacob Smullyan 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

I'm pleased to announce the first alpha release of PyDO 2. PyDO is Drew Csillag's ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) database access library for Python that facilitates writing a Python database access layer. PyDO attempts to be simple, flexible, extensible, and unconstraining. PyDO 2 is a rewrite of the 1.x series distributed with SkunkWeb. It has several enhancements: * PyDO can now be used in multi-threaded or twisted-style asynchronous sitations, with or without a customizable connection pool. * PyDO objects are now dict subclasses, but also support attribute access to fields. * Projections -- subsets of the field list of a super-class -- are now supported by the PyDO.project() method. * Table attributes are now declared in a more concise way. * Overall, the API has been tightened and the code restructured. It also has several limitations: * PyDO 2 is alpha code. Bugs should be expected, and the API is not guaranteed to be stable. * Currently, PyDO 2 supports fewer database systems than PyDO 1 (PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL), although adding new drivers should not be difficult. * PyDO 2 requires Python 2.4 or later. PyDO is dual GPL/BSD licensed. The source tarball is available at SkunkWeb's berlios site: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/skunkweb/ or, more directly: http://download.berlios.de/skunkweb/PyDO-2.0a0.tar.gz Questions pertaining to PyDO can be addressed to the SkunkWeb mailing list at sourceforge: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skunkweb-list Cheers, js -- Jacob Smullyan

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ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.6.1
by Johan Dahlin 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

I am pleased to announce version 2.6.1 of the Python bindings for GTK. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.6/pygtk-2.6.1.tar.gz Changes since 2.6.0: - GtkListStore.insert optimization (Johan) - GtkTreeStore/GtkListStore.reorder leak fix (Johan, Richard Hult) - GParamSpec bug fix (Johan) - Code generator improvements (Anders Carlsson, Johan, Doug Quale) - GCC4 build fixes Blurb: GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on POSIX systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X (provided that the X server for MacOS X has been installed). It provides a comprehensive set of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text. It links into the Gnome Accessibility Framework through the ATK library. PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full features applications. PyGTK requires GTK+ >= 2.6 and Python >= 2.3 to build. Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for links to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK. -- Johan Dahlin johan(a)gnome.org

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Wing IDE 2.0.2 Released
by Wing IDE Announce 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi, We're pleased to announce the release of Wing IDE 2.0.2. This is a free upgrade for Wing IDE 2.0 users. The release can be downloaded from: http://wingware.com/downloads Wing IDE provides powerful debugging, editing, code intelligence, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code. Highlights of this release include: * Easier to use Zope and Plone integration http://wingware.com/doc/howtos/zope * Extension of the IDE with Python scripts (Wing Pro only) http://wingware.com/doc/scripting * CVS revision control system integration (Wing Pro only) http://localhost/doc/edit/revision-control * Reorganized and expanded Project and File properties * Ability to view and change text file encodings * Per-project line ending and indentation policies * Option to auto-add new files to projects * Text input methods for non-european languages * Wing IDE Personal now includes the Indentation tool * Over 70 other improvements and bug fixes New features in Wing IDE 2.0 since the last 1.1 release include a redesigned customizable user interface, call tips, syntax error indicators, editor tabs and splits, multi-file wildcard and regular expression searching, integrated documentation and tutorial, German localization, and Unicode support. This release is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and can be compiled from sources on *BSD, Solaris, and other Posix operating systems. A complete list of changes is available here: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/2.0.2/CHANGELOG.txt For more information see: Product Info: http://wingware.com/products Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase Upgrades: http://wingware.com/store/upgrade Sincerely, The Wingware Team

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ANN: MoinMoin 1.3.4 (advanced wiki engine) released
by Alexander Schremmer 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

_ _ /\/\ ___ (_)_ __ /\/\ ___ (_)_ __ / \ / _ \| | '_ \ / \ / _ \| | '_ \ __ / /\/\ \ (_) | | | | / /\/\ \ (_) | | | | | /| _) \/ \/\___/|_|_| |_\/ \/\___/|_|_| |_| |.__) ============================================== MoinMoin 1.3.4 advanced wiki engine released ============================================== MoinMoin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software package written in Python. It can fulfill a wide range of roles, such as a personal notes organizer deployed on a laptop or home web server, a company knowledge base deployed on an intranet, or an Internet server open to individuals sharing the same interests, goals or projects. A wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment with an emphasis on easy manipulation of information. MoinMoin 1.3.4 is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs and introduces some new features. See below. Upgrading is recommended for all users. - http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinDownload Major bugs that were fixed -------------------------- * Fixed a few non-critical ACL issues which might have led to leakage of pagenames. * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME. This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created pages that did not appear immediately. * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally. http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs/BrokenUmlautsInLinksIn131 * Fixed traceback on IIS. http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs/request%2epy_broken_on_IIS * Many fixes in WikiRPC. * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it showed too many irrelevant matches (MoinMoinBugs/BacklinksAreBroken). * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling this option. * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation. http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs/FreeParentLinksAreBroken * Various other bugfixes. Major New features ------------------ * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers if used. * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search for links. * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you use those Apache modules) * Date and DateTime macros accept a timezone specification. For a more detailed list of changes, see the CHANGES file in the distribution or http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinRelease1.3/CHANGES Major new features in 1.3 ========================= * MoinMoin speaks your language! Complete Unicode support, translated system and help pages in more than ten languages, and support for languages written from right to left are the base features of our internationalisation support. * Fresh look and feel. New default user interface design, improved existing themes and enhanced theme plug-in framework that make it easier to modify the design or create completely new user interface. * Find anything on your wiki, instantly. New search engine and streamlined Google-like search interface, using multiple search terms, regular expressions, search term modifiers and boolean search. * Antispam - keep spammers out of you wiki. Protect your wiki with automatically updated spam patterns maintained on the MoinMaster wiki, and shared by all MoinMoin wikis worlwide. * Underlay directory - easy upgrade and maintenance. New streamlined directory layout protects all system and help pages in a separate underlay directory. * Run with your favorite server. Use either a standalone server that requires only Python, the high performance Twisted server, Apache with Fast CGI, mod_python or plain CGI. * Multiconfig - easier, more powerful configuration. New class-based configuration allow you to easily configure single or multiple wikis sharing a common setup. MoinMoin History ================ MoinMoin has been around since year 2000. Most of the codebase was written by Jürgen Hermann; it is currently being developed by a growing team. Being originally based on PikiPiki, it has evolved heavily since then (PikiPiki and MoinMoin 0.1 consisted of just one file!). Many large enterprises have been using MoinMoin as a key tool of their intranet, some even use it for their public web page. A large number of Open Source projects use MoinMoin for communication and documentation. Of course there is also a large number of private installations. More Information ================ * Project site: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ * Feature list: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinFeatures * Download: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinDownload * This software is available under the GNU General Public License v2. * Changes: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinRelease1.3/CHANGES * Upgrade: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnUpdating * Known bugs: * http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/KnownIssues * http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs sent by Alexander Schremmer for the MoinMoin team

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[ANN] Release 0.25 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hi all, I am pleased to announce release 0.25 of Task Coach. This release fixes one bug and extends two features: Bug fixed: - The menu item 'Effort' -> 'New effort' did not work in release 0.24. Features extended: - XML export now includes effort records. - Effort per day, per week and per month views now also show total time spent (i.e. time including time spent on subtasks). What is Task Coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and uses wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the source distribution. Thanks, Frank

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ANN: Veusz 0.4 released (scientific plotting package)
by Jeremy Sanders 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Veusz 0.4 [first public release] --------- Velvet Ember Under Sky Zenith ----------------------------- http://home.gna.org/veusz/ Veusz is a scientific plotting package written in Python (currently 100% Python). It uses PyQt for display and user-interfaces, and numarray for handling the numeric data. Veusz is designed to produce publication-ready Postscript output. Veusz provides a GUI, command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to its plotting facilities. The plots are built using an object-based system to provide a consistent interface. Currently done: * X-Y plots (with errorbars) * Stepped plots (for histograms) * Line plots * Function plots * Stacked plots and arrays of plots * Plot keys * Plot labels * LaTeX-like formatting for text * EPS output * Simple data importing * Scripting interface * Save/Load plots * Some work on a manual and introduction To be done: * Contour plots * Images * Filled regions * UI improvements * Import filters (for qdp and other plotting packages, fits, csv) * Data manipulation * Python embedding interface (for embedding Veusz in other programs). [some of the external interface is complete] * Proper installation program Requirements: Python (probably 2.3 or greater required) http://www.python.org/ Qt (free edition) http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/ PyQt (SIP is required to be installed first) http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/ http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/ numarray http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray Microsoft Core Fonts (recommended) http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ For documentation on using Veusz, see the "Documents" directory. The manual is in pdf, html and text format (generated from docbook). If you enjoy using Veusz, I would love to hear from you. Please join the mailing lists at https://gna.org/mail/?group=veusz to discuss new features or if you'd like to contribute code. The newest code can always be found in CVS. Cheers Jeremy Veusz is Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Jeremy Sanders <jeremy(a)jeremysanders.net> Licenced under the GPL (version 2 or greater)

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[ANN] XPN 0.4.5 released
by Nemesis 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

XPN - X Python Newsreader is a multiplatform newsreader with unicode support. It is written in Python+PyGTK. It has features like scoring/actions, XFace and Face decoding and random taglines. You can find it on: http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html http://sf.net/projects/xpn Changes in this release: * added X-Face support (thanks to Andrew Taylor for helping me in the translation of his javascript port of uncompface, and to Alien321 for telling me about the Mnheny Thunderbird extension) * added Face support (note you can't send Faces, because this is a non standard header). * added i18n support with gettext. At the moment the supported languages are Italian and French (thanks to Guillaume Bedot for the code and for the French translation) * rewrote NNTP connection handler as an externale module. Now it should be more readable and more reliable. * some refinements in watch/ignore/mark features * fixed some quirk behaviours in the wrapping feature. Now the live wrapping should work better. * added Subject based threading, it's used when References based threading fails * now XPN can generate Message-IDs, and you can also use a personal [pseudo-]FQDN. * added command line options, now you can run xpn with "-d" option and it will store articles and configs files inside a .xpn directory in your home-dir. (thanks to Guillaume Bedot for the code) * added a simple outbox, you can store your articles in it when you are offline and then send them when you estabilish the connection with the server. * now XPN should autmatically repair its database when it gets corrupted. * some fixes for Supersede/Cancel features * now you can select multiple row in groups list. So for instance you can subscribe more than one group with one click, or you can use the new "download new headers in selected groups". * now you can use a different From field when you reply by mail * fixed a bug introduced in the previous release that caused a crash trying to use a NickName with extended characters in it. -- Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you're an ass. |\ | |HomePage : http://nem01.altervista.org | \|emesis |XPN (my nr): http://xpn.altervista.org

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ctypes 0.9.5 released
by Thomas Heller 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

ctypes 0.9.5 released - Mar 11, 2005 ==================================== Overview ctypes is an advanced ffi (Foreign Function Interface) package for Python 2.3 and higher. ctypes allows to call functions exposed from dlls/shared libraries and has extensive facilities to create, access and manipulate simple and complicated C data types in Python - in other words: wrap libraries in pure Python. It is even possible to implement C callback functions in pure Python. ctypes runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. It may also run on other systems, provided that libffi supports this platform. For windows, ctypes contains a ctypes.com package which allows to call and implement custom COM interfaces. Important If you download the source distribution, please choose the ZIP file for Windows, and the .tar.gz file for other machines. These archive have different contents! There have been lots of changes - if you are the author or user of a package that uses ctypes, please test it with this release and report problems on the ctypes-users mailing list. Additions New package ctypes.wrap. This contains decorators usable for easier creation of wrapper functions. This package also contains a toolchain for (semi)automatic creation of wrappers for external libraries - it can parse C header files and generate ctypes code for the declarations in them. It can even handle preprocessor definitions! For details, see http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/codegen.html Changes in 0.9.5 On systems where sizeof(int) == sizeof(long), c_int/c_long and c_uint/c_ulong are now aliases. Similar for c_long/c_longlong and c_ulong/c_ulonglong. This prevents unneeded type errors. If an exception occurs in a callback function, a full traceback is now printed. Raising SystemExit in a callback function now correctly exists Python. HRESULT is now a proper ctype - no longer a function. This allows to use it in the argtypes sequence for function prototypes. An easier way to define structures and unions that reference themselves, or have dependencies to other data types. The _fields_ attribute can now be set *after* the Structure/Union class has been created. This makes the SetPointerType function obsolete. The semantics of the _fields_ attribute in sub-subclasses of Structure and Union has been fixed. The baseclasses _fields_ list is extended, not replaced, in subclasses. Assigning _fields_ when it is no longer possible raises an error now. Structures and unions now work as restype and in the argtypes list for functions. An important bug has been fixed with pointers. Detailed changelogs are in CVS: <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ctypes/ctypes/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD> <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ctypes/ctypes/win32/com/ChangeLog?rev…> Download Downloads are available in the sourceforge files section <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71702> Separate source distributions are available for windows and non-windows systems. Please use the .zip file for Windows (it contains the ctypes.com framework), and use the .tar.gz file for non-Windows systems (it contains the complete cross-platform libffi sources). Binary windows installers, which contain compiled extension modules, are also available, be sure to download the correct one for the Python version you are using. Homepage <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/> Enjoy, Thomas

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[ANN] Release 0.24 of Task Coach (which is also available from Sourceforge now)
by Frank Niessink 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Hi all, I am pleased to announce release 0.24 of Task Coach. This release fixes two bugs and adds one feature: Bugs fixed: - Saving a selection of tasks to a separate file would also save all effort records to that file (instead of just the effort records for the selected tasks), giving errors when loading that file. - Deleting a task with effort records would not delete the effort records. Features added: - The tracking status of tasks is saved. So if you start tracking a task, quit Task Coach, and restart Task Coach later, effort for that task is still being tracked. Requested by Bob Hossley. In addition, the source code for Task Coach is a available from the CVS repositoty at Sourceforge. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ What is Task Coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and uses wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the source distribution. Thanks, Frank

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cx_Logging 1.0
by Anthony Tuininga 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

What is cx_Logging? cx_Logging is a Python extension module which operates in a fashion similar to the logging module that ships with Python 2.3 and higher. It also has a C interface which allows applications to perform logging independently of Python. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining What's new? 1) This is the first release of this project. -- Anthony Tuininga anthony(a)computronix.com Computronix Distinctive Software. Real People. Suite 200, 10216 - 124 Street NW Edmonton, AB, Canada T5N 4A3 Phone: (780) 454-3700 Fax: (780) 454-3838 http://www.computronix.com

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